Artificial Love
>Rough Draft Essay
December 6, 2004
There is something that separates the living from the dead; and, a dividing line between organic artificial life and real life. The theme of love is played throughout Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (by Philip K. Dick). In his story, Dick strings the idea of love through the interactions of the book's characters. This allows readers to familiarize with the emotional and physical attractions that exist between humans and androids. The usage of technology and artificial things has been labeled potentially dangerous (a theme found in many science fiction stories); Dick’s vision allows its readers to compare how humans relate now and could relate to the development in technology and the future. In Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, Dick shares a glimpse into an outcome possible if this world continues to imitate perfection, how the emotions and relationships between beings could deteriorate into something meaningless or even deemed illegal.
In the future, humans will make robots, androids assembled from flesh and bone. The mentality of these androids will become more intellectually complex than those of humans. Fear will strike, and these creations will be thus banned from the planet completely. The perfection of the female android causes the immoral and unintentional seduction that lures mankind into a spell of the desire of something fake. This bond is forbidden, an aspect that only makes such affairs more tempting. In their higher state of minds these powerful female androids are able to manipulate most men from simple chickenheads like J.R. Isadore to the great Rick Deckard.
Today, technology serves a very important role in the economy and everyday lifestyles for much of the human race. The development of computers could become so intricate that it poses as a global hazard. Exiling these godforsaken robots off of the planet will only temporarily solve the problem; Dick proposes that the freedom of opportunity on earth will attract the android race to migrate illegally and live secret lives among humans.
Rachel Rosens’ tempting passes at Deckard and Pris’ steady control over J.R. Isadore, all prove the potential danger of artificial life that could take effect on a person. The strive for perfection with technology, aiming to simplify and make the human lifestyle more convenient, could lead the world to its own doom. The banned “love” between a man and his robot, which he chooses over a real female being, will be a part of a network of illegal coupling of man and android and tear apart the natural connection, production and traditional lifestyle that involving the human-with-human relationship. The love is lost. Empathy becomes one sided. Feelings are unreal. Perfection supports desire to take the lead and leave behind what was once real love, dissolving and fading away in the past.
Saturday, December 11, 2004
Tuesday, December 07, 2004
Reflections on Readings
Here is a collection of my thoughts as a reponse to the readings that we've dicussed in class recently:
Burning Chrome ( I had read this the friday it was instructed to be read)
I found this reading to be a boring and confusing collection of technical and uninteresting terms used to project what was supposed to be an interesting story of a cowboy and one-armed man hacking into Chrome's system. A game for geeks in a world where people are losers. It was a headache to read and stupid and disagreeable to modern times and morals. The author even tries to create sympathetic and jealous type reaction of the pathetic social lives of these two men.
It was a rather sadistic way of looking at how technology could/can/and is interacting with humans today. Women are ideolized and have strength as opposed to the men who follow and suffer from a life of wanting something else. The technology in this story is refered as a way of life. It has become another form of man, almost like an extention of mankind.
Ice is mentioned like an obstacle, the complications in achieving goals. The whole hacking process that the two main characters are in seems entirely stupid and pointless. So what? Who cares? Their lives are very isolated and it seems that no one cares about them and that they don't care about anyone (yes, even Rikki). I don't get the point of this story, it only reminds me of those kiddie cartoons of superheros that use random technical words to sound cool and high tec.
Love and Napalm
This reading seemed rather disturbing. It was a sadistic experiment using women, children, torture and other grotesque elements to stir sexual arousement in mentally ill patients and children; an observation and emphasis of the reactions to the brutality of the Veitnam War and its "newsreels" on patients used as human lab rats.
Why would an author write about such horrors? It doesn't even portray a reality. It can be compared to finding happiness in hell. The matter-of-fact tone in this report seems to be calling for a debate. Who would agree to participate in such a perverted experiment? The author has probably grown up in a disturbed household and has a psychotic reaction to too much exposure to sexual and violent things.
The Atrocity Exposition
As a human race, why does it seem that we work so hard to demolish everything that we create? Why is there competition? And what is this facination and obsession with Elizabeth Taylor, why her in particular? The Atrocity Exposition like the other pieces of literature mentioned above is also confusing and arguable. They definately show the "how" process of coming to a conclusion about a specific topic or general idea. They are all written in the form of someones mind, flickering with random images of planes, war, sex and women. In this piece there is the theme of fear portrayed throughout the context. Hiding behind cement, avoiding war with death, and distractions from billboards, thoughts and women.
The form of writing seems to be broken up into random sections. The characters are hardly introduced and the setting seems like a deserted world with choppers, planes and bombs. Suburbia is often mentioned perhaps it is being used to symbolize the abandonment of homes.
It is difficult to link together the Doctor, Elizabeth Taylor, World War III, the Travis' and Catherine Austin. A very confusing message with hard to follow storyline. Was the white Pontiac destroyed or NOT destroyed? "A wrecked white car..."(40, English reader). "Half an hour later the young woman drove away in the white Pontiac" (42).
Burning Chrome ( I had read this the friday it was instructed to be read)
I found this reading to be a boring and confusing collection of technical and uninteresting terms used to project what was supposed to be an interesting story of a cowboy and one-armed man hacking into Chrome's system. A game for geeks in a world where people are losers. It was a headache to read and stupid and disagreeable to modern times and morals. The author even tries to create sympathetic and jealous type reaction of the pathetic social lives of these two men.
It was a rather sadistic way of looking at how technology could/can/and is interacting with humans today. Women are ideolized and have strength as opposed to the men who follow and suffer from a life of wanting something else. The technology in this story is refered as a way of life. It has become another form of man, almost like an extention of mankind.
Ice is mentioned like an obstacle, the complications in achieving goals. The whole hacking process that the two main characters are in seems entirely stupid and pointless. So what? Who cares? Their lives are very isolated and it seems that no one cares about them and that they don't care about anyone (yes, even Rikki). I don't get the point of this story, it only reminds me of those kiddie cartoons of superheros that use random technical words to sound cool and high tec.
Love and Napalm
This reading seemed rather disturbing. It was a sadistic experiment using women, children, torture and other grotesque elements to stir sexual arousement in mentally ill patients and children; an observation and emphasis of the reactions to the brutality of the Veitnam War and its "newsreels" on patients used as human lab rats.
Why would an author write about such horrors? It doesn't even portray a reality. It can be compared to finding happiness in hell. The matter-of-fact tone in this report seems to be calling for a debate. Who would agree to participate in such a perverted experiment? The author has probably grown up in a disturbed household and has a psychotic reaction to too much exposure to sexual and violent things.
The Atrocity Exposition
As a human race, why does it seem that we work so hard to demolish everything that we create? Why is there competition? And what is this facination and obsession with Elizabeth Taylor, why her in particular? The Atrocity Exposition like the other pieces of literature mentioned above is also confusing and arguable. They definately show the "how" process of coming to a conclusion about a specific topic or general idea. They are all written in the form of someones mind, flickering with random images of planes, war, sex and women. In this piece there is the theme of fear portrayed throughout the context. Hiding behind cement, avoiding war with death, and distractions from billboards, thoughts and women.
The form of writing seems to be broken up into random sections. The characters are hardly introduced and the setting seems like a deserted world with choppers, planes and bombs. Suburbia is often mentioned perhaps it is being used to symbolize the abandonment of homes.
It is difficult to link together the Doctor, Elizabeth Taylor, World War III, the Travis' and Catherine Austin. A very confusing message with hard to follow storyline. Was the white Pontiac destroyed or NOT destroyed? "A wrecked white car..."(40, English reader). "Half an hour later the young woman drove away in the white Pontiac" (42).
Monday, December 06, 2004
Rough Draft Essay
Artificial Love
>Rough Draft Essay
December 6, 2004
>>>>>>>What separates the living from the dead; and moreso, where is the >>dividing line between organic artificial life and real life? The theme of love is >>played throughout Do Andriods Dream of Electric Sheep (by Philip K. Dick). In >>his story, Dick strings the idea of love through the relationships of the book's
>>characters. This allows readers to familiarize with the emotional and physical
>>attractions that exist between humans and andriods. The usage of technology and artificial things has been labled potentially dangerous (a theme found in many science fiction stories).
>>How humans relate now and will relate to the development in technology and its future interactions0000010101011____10101010___101000001111
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>Rough Draft Essay
December 6, 2004
>>>>>>>What separates the living from the dead; and moreso, where is the >>dividing line between organic artificial life and real life? The theme of love is >>played throughout Do Andriods Dream of Electric Sheep (by Philip K. Dick). In >>his story, Dick strings the idea of love through the relationships of the book's
>>characters. This allows readers to familiarize with the emotional and physical
>>attractions that exist between humans and andriods. The usage of technology and artificial things has been labled potentially dangerous (a theme found in many science fiction stories).
>>How humans relate now and will relate to the development in technology and its future interactions0000010101011____10101010___101000001111
>>>>01_01000110__011100110101_01101___0101_1000111__010__0101____101010110101___
101010111_0001010101___ 01010101___
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